THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5321, 3 September 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Following are the vital for Paeroa for the month of August, with those for the corresponding month last year in. parentheses : Births, 6 (9) ; death;,-, 2 (3) ; marriages, 1 (4). Constable Dawson, who lias been, indisposed during the pas.t three weeks with influenza, resumed duty this morning. T’lie, number, of people who, go to prison because they will not pay theit. debts is on the increa The annual report of the Controller-General of Prisons sho.ws that the- qumber of imprisonments for refusal.■' to, obey orders of the Court for payment o£ debt lias risen from 137 in 1925 to 241 in 1927. Mr Arthur Rossfcr, J.P., president qf the Auckland Justices of the Peace A isociation, was: qn a visit to Paeroa on Saturday, in the interests 'of the association.. During the present trip ho. lias held meeting’s, of the: association; at the branches in Hamilton, Mata>nata, and Te Ar.oha. Replying in the House of Representatives;' to a question, by Mr A. M. Samuel, member foj- ohinemuri, the acting-Mijiiiiter in charge of the Pensions Department (Hon, F. J. Rolleston) stated that in connection with tile qu-e-stiojn, of reciprocity with Australia in regard to old-age pensions:, consideration was being- given to the representations submitted by the Minister, of Lands during his visit to Australia. The matter of reciprocity' with Great Britain was in! abeyance pending the conclusion qf negotiations with Australia. Sentimental interest probably drew a number of ex-servie'emen to a re.cent auction sale in New Plymouth qf tlie furniture and effects of the Returned Soldiers’ Club, oii.e of the. last institutions of its kind in the Dominion (says air exchange). Though the association will continue', the dispersal meant for them the breakingup of an organisation, surrounded by many comradely momorie" of the more pleasant interludes of war. Some- of them made purchases for. old sa.ke. Everything wa"- sold with tlie exception of a. forlorn pile o.f Hansards. A “get-rich-quick” scheme was worked at the Christchurch Winter Show by a boy, -whose action was as eiiitcrprising as it was! unlawful (states tlie. “Lyttelton Tinies”). Being permitted to, retain his pass after entering the door., he slipped round to a quiet part of the dividing fence, qver. which he hand'ed the pass to one of .his. mates. The la.tter repeated the perfonnance of passing a doorkeeper and handing the ticket over the fenjee, until niine of the “gang?’ w'erc inside. Then the first boy. a” a rran.ge'l, collected sixpence a head frqjm his mates for the, privilege of using the paqs, which wa-: worth a shilling. T n the first place the pass belonged to the boy’s 'S,iste'r, wh'om he had cajoled into f,ur.rend’ering it. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never faib